From snip +‎ -et. Compare snippock.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪpɪt/, [ˈsnɪpɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪpɪt

snippet (plural snippets)

1. A small part of something, such as a song or fabric; sample.

   From the snippet I heard of their rehearsal, they sound pretty good.

   • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester::

     He cut his coats without waste; according to his embroidered cloth, they were very small ends and snippets that lay about upon the table […]

   • 1959 April, P. Ransome-Wallis, “The Southern in Trouble on the Kent Coast”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 216:

     On another occasion a "Schools" class, No. 30911 Dover, with a load of eight bogies on the same train was badly delayed by signals all the way, but made very determined attempts to pick up time whenever possible. This resulted in a sustained speed of 50 m.p.h. up Sole Street bank and several snippets in the "eighties".

   • 1988, Roald Dahl, Matilda:

     Miss Honey smiled. It was extraordinary, she told herself, how this little snippet of a girl seemed suddenly to be taking charge of her problems, and with such authority, too.

2. (computing) A text file containing a relatively small amount of code, useless by itself, along with instructions for inserting that code into a larger codebase.

• (small part): excerpt

• DNA snippet
• in-snippet
• snippet journalism
• snippety

snippet (third-person singular simple present snippets, present participle snippeting or (nonstandard) snippetting, simple past and past participle snippeted or (nonstandard) snippetted)

1. (transitive, often computing) To produce a snippet (small part) of; to excerpt.

   We snippeted the blog posts for display on the home page.

2. To make small cuts, to snip, particularly with scissors.
   • 1902, Beatrix Potter, The Tailor of Gloucester::

     All day long while the light lasted he sewed and snippetted […]

• Doubled ‘tt’ is incorrect per standard spelling rules, but reasonably common.

• (tiny part): excerpt

• snippet on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• steppin'